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The sd2vita is pretty easy to setup these days. I find that it can all be done with gui apps on the vita itself.

Also I just ftp and drop roms on the sd card too.

Yeah but it's a 30+ step process to even to be able to use the sd2vita and emulators. Modern retro handhelds have an ease of use convenience factor. Proper SD card support, USB C charging, TV out, literally drag and drop ROMs, etc.

More like 10 steps. But yes it takes a bit of knowledge.

This is very true, modding any console can be quite the effort and a huge challenge for non technical people.

To get the mod working I had to compile the software for macOS 10.13 as some libusb function wasn’t working correctly and wouldn’t inject the payload to the vita. This was well out of my comfort zone.

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